ABSTRACT
The Americans have, in the treatment of women, fallen below, not only their own democratic principles, but the practice of some parts of the Old World. The unconsciousness of both parties as to the injuries suffered by women at the hands of those who hold the power is a sufficient proof of the low degree of civilisation in this important particular at which they rest. Marriage is in America more nearly universal, more safe, more tranquil, more fortunate than in England: but it is still subject to the troubles which arise from the inequality of the parties in mind and in occupation. All American ladies are more or less literary: and some are so to excellent purpose: to the saving of their minds from vacuity. As for the occupations with which American ladies fill up their leisure; what has been already said will show that there is no great weight or diversity of occupation.
